Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac Nanterre, Paris School Building, Architect, French Education Design
Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac, Nanterre
Allée de Bourgogne, Paris School, France design by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
16 Mar 2012
Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac
Location: Nanterre, north west Paris
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Photographs: DFA_David Boureau
Nanterre School
A public institution with a strong identity
The school is distinguished by its spatial organization and design of the facades of their surroundings. The free form differentiates the building from its environnement of rigid social housing characterizing the area ‘Province de France’ in Nanterre. There is a relationship point of view (a view relation) with the Paris business district La Défense. The highly frequented, Route Nationale 314 runs west to the school building. The site was excavated and earth mound planted.
The school complex is organized around two courtyards that offer children different outdoor areas. The yard of the kindergarten was designed as a square, the courtyard of the elementary school as a trapeze. In the south, the campus has been completed by the gym. To the east is the ‘Centre de Loisirs’, a day home for in France generally established full-day school. The day home also is open to the residents of the neighborhood Province de France, and acts with its library and documentation center as ‘house of the neighborhood’.
The main entrance of the school is located in the north under the overhanging volume of the library. Visible from the rue de Savoye, it offers a generous covered forecourt for parents and children. Under this covered forecourt there are also bike racks.
The location of the lodge allows the control of visitors and students. The young children have a direct access from the covered outdoor area to the hall of the kindergarten. The entrance of the elementary school is situated on the west and can be reached from the forecourt via a covered walkway along the building.
The building
The entire school building is surrounded by a corridor. This bright corridor with windows in different sizes, gives direct access to the classrooms and facilities. The corridor also provides an effective noise control for the exclusively to the courtyard orientated classrooms. All classrooms are extremely quiet and sunny thanks to their orientation.
photographs : DFA_David Boureau
The kindergarten
The kindergarten with its five classes is arranged on two floors and accessed via the entrance hall.
The common facilities for the day home, kindergarten and elementary school as computer science room, library, exercise room, music room and language laboratory can be reached by the pupils of each institution in a separated, short and clear way. The teachers already have confirmed that orientation in the building is extremely easy for the children.
The Elementary school
The school has 9 classes overall. 2 classrooms are situated on the ground floor, seven classrooms on the first floor. 3 classes are provided with a spacious terrace.
The canteen with attached self-service is used by the kindergarten and the elementary school and located between the two courts.
Interior
Throughout the school linoleum floors were laid. The classrooms vary in color from the common areas.
Each classroom has been equipped with acoustic panels and a wall filling board made of perforated aluminum with built-in absorbent material.
The school supplies are placed in a special built wooden closet in the classes.
photographs : DFA_David Boureau
Transitions
The corridors in front of the classrooms were equipped with a continuous wooden bench seat with integrated shoe rack as well as coat hooks.
Gym
The gym closes at the school complex in the south. Transparent polycarbonate panels ensure a covered access to the gym from the school and the kindergarten.
Facade
The facades are made of untreated pine slats. Through their cut and individually mounted alternated with glass surfaces, they produce the vibration of the facade.
In order to avoid a direct view from the opposite residential buildings, the facade of the day school has been intensified and conducted over the windows.
Along with the green roofs they form a unity and a strong contrast to the environment.
Home of the caretaker
The 3 bedroom apartment of the caretaker is located on the 3rd floor and allows from the terrace the overlooking of the school grounds and a view to the Grande Arche at La Défense.
Parking
12 parking, available for the teachers and with a direct access to the building are situated at -1.
photographs : DFA_David Boureau
Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac – Building Information
Projekt / Project: Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac
Addresse / Address: Allée de Bourgogne, Nanterre Bauherr
Client / Mairie de Nanterre: 98 à 118 Rue du 8 Mai 1945 F – 92014 Nanterre Cedex Contact : Mme Marie-Hélène GAYET, M Gilles RAGNETTI Tél. : 01.47.29.53.37
Architekt / Architecte: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes Architekt Dipl.Ing. Dietmar Feichtinger, Paris
Projektleitung Planung / Project team leader: DI Katja Pargger
Team Planung / Team planning: Mathias Neveling, Anna Zottl, An Vranken, Markus Himmel, Jeanne Stern, Maria Joao Pita
Team Competition: DI Katja Pargger, chef de projet; Barbara Fellmann, DI Dorit Boehme, Petra Meisenbichler
Fachplaner / Bet
Statik / BET / Structural consultant: INGEROP 168 – 174, bd de Verdun, F – 92408 Courbevoie
HQE: Oasiis, F-13685 Aubagne Cedex
BET ACOUSTIQUE: Peutz & Associés, 75010 Paris
BUREAU DE CONTROLE: APAVE, 95523 Cergy-Pontoise Cx
COORDONNATEUR SPS: QUALICONSULT 12 rue des Peupliers, 92014 Nanterre
ETUDES GEOTECHNIQUES: GEOLIA, 91160 Champlan-Longjumeau
COORDONNATEUR OPC: MEL, 95390 Saint-Prix
Flächen / Surfaces
Grundstücksfläche / Surface parcelle: 7 116 m²
Nutzfläche / Surface hors oeuvre nette: 4 620 m²
Bebaute Fläche / Emprise au sol: 2 713 m²
Zeitplan / Schedule
Wettbewerb / competition: 10 May 2007
Planungsbeginn / start of planning: Dec 2007
Baubeginn / start of construction: Sep 2009
Fertigstellung / completion: Jan 2012
Baukosten / building costs: 10 328 858 € HT (construction groupe scolaire) ; 15 650 00€ (couts globale avec terrassement terrain)
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Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Location: Allée de Bourgogne, Nanterre, Paris, France
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